Hugh Falconer
Scottish scientist
Died when: 56 years 337 days (683 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist.He studied the flora, fauna, and geology of India, Assam,Burma,and most of the Mediterranean islands and was the first to suggest the modern evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium.
He studied the Siwalik fossil beds, and may also have been the first person to discover a fossil ape.
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